About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

August 29......

August 29 is the 241st (242nd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Belief "Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." — Buddha

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Respecting Our Elders "On the Senate Floor Senator Robert Byrd said, "Today I weep for my country"—I hope he didn't soil the sheets—"no more is the image of America one of strong yet benevolent peace-keeper, we flaunt our super-power status with arrogance," he said." — Rush Limbaugh, promotional excerpt during a web broadcast of the "Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan Show," KSFO-AM 560, 3-21-03

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Facts are stupid things." — Ronald Reagan {He so believed this that he never did let facts bother his sense of reality.}

Thought for the day: "In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the bow, Pleasure at the helm."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

Gigantic Jets Over Oklahoma

Credit: Richard SmedleyClick picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

EVENTS

● 5502 B.C.E. - Origin of Alexandrian Era

● 30 - Beheading of St. John, the Baptist.

● 284 - Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)

● 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

● 1189 - Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which became a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.

● 1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, one of the last men to be elected pope outside the College of Cardinals.

● 1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

● 1792 - Birth of Charles G. Finney, American revivalist and educator. Originally trained in law, he was converted to Christian faith at age 29, conducted revival services for eight years and, from 1835 until his death, maintained a close affiliation with Oberlin College in Ohio.

● 1828 - A patent was issued to Robert Turner for the self-regulating wagon brake.

● 1833 - The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.

● 1842 - At the conclusion of the first Anglo-Chinese War, also known as the First Opium War, the Treaty of Nanking is signed, ceding the island of Hong Kong to the British and winning European merchants more loot in China.

● 1852 - The Latter Day Saints first published their doctrine of "celestial marriage," popularly known as polygamy. The Mormon Church maintained this teaching until the Manifest of 1890 (and later Congressional legislation) outlawed the practice. {Actually this is a mischaracterization of part of this doctrine. The doctrine holds that a "sealed marriage" is for eternity and can be with only one wife, secondary wives get off the hook with death.}

● 1867 - The Social Brethren were officially organized in Illinois. Today, there are about 1,000 total members of this small, evangelistic denomination, with most churches located in Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. Church doctrine is a blend of Methodist and Baptist polity.

● 1869 - The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

● 1871 - Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).

● 1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapsed killing 75 workers. The bridge was being built across the St. Lawrence River above Quebec City.

● 1908 - Death of Lewis H. Redner, 78, American Episcopal organist. Maintaining a keen interest in music all his life, Redner composed ST. LOUIS, the tune to which today is most commonly sung Phillips Brooks' Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem."

● 1910 - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.

● 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

● 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish international film star, was born.

● 1916 - Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast, 1,000 drown

● 1917 - Death of Ernest W. Shurtleff, 55, American Congregational clergyman and author of the hymn, "Lead On, O King Eternal." Shurtleff died during World War I, while doing relief work along with his wife.

● 1918 - Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive

● 1921 - Newspapers report that Ku Klux Klan members have tarred and feathered 43 Texans in the past seven days. During the fear and government repression following WWI, the Klan makes an astonishing comeback. The group's platform attacks African Americans, Catholics and Jews. By 1924, the Klan has 4.5 million members and enormous political clout in some states. At Indiana's Republican convention in 1923, the state Klan head will walk down the aisle with a pistol strapped to his waist. Georgia's Klan chief, Hiram Wesley Evans, runs for president. In Texas, the Klan controls two-thirds of the state's county conventions.

● 1922 - Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna, in Asia Minor.

● 1929 - German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight

● 1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

● 1944 - During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.

● 1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.

● 1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese.

● 1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.

● 1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

● 1950 - British troops arrive in Korea; British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.

● 1953 - USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb

● 1954 - SF International Airport (SFO) opens

● 1957 - 2,300 people watch Nevada Nuclear test on-site, so U.S. Army can test the effects. Some observers later develop cancer.

● 1957 - U.S. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, the first since 1875. The bill establishes a Civil Rights Commission and a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. In a futile attempt to block it, Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina sets the all-time filibuster record - 24 hours, 19 minutes.

● 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

● 1970 - Three die in East Los Angeles when an anti-war march turns into a riot during Chicano National Moratorium. Thousands of Chicanos gathered at Laguna Park in East L.A. to protest disproportionate number of deaths of Chicano soldiers in Vietnam. LAPD attack and one shot, fired into Silver Dollar Bar, kills Ruben Salazar, LA Times columnist and commentator on KMEX TV (accused by LAPD of inciting the Chicano community.)

● 1973 - U.S. President Nixon was ordered by Judge John Sirica to turn over the Watergate tapes. Nixon refused and appealed the order.

● 1974 - Rock fans clash with police at festival; At least 220 people are arrested following disturbances at a rock festival in Windsor Great Park in Berkshire.

● 1975 - Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky

● 1977 - First world conference on desertification, Nairobi, Kenya.

● 1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

● 1983 - The anchor of the USS Monitor, from the U.S. Civil War, was retrieved by divers.

● 1983 - Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.

● 1984 - A B-1 bomber prototype crashed in the Mojave Desert killing one crew member and injuring two others.

● 1992 - The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.

● 1995 - At the O. J. Simpson trial, tapes of Mark Fuhrman were played. The recordings were of Fuhrman making racial comments. {The tapes had no bearing on the case but were instrumental in getting Simpson acquitted.}

● Roman Catholic:● St. Adelphus● St. Basilla● St. Candida● St. Edwold● St. Euthymius● Sts. Hypatius and Andrew● St. Hyperdulia● St. John the Baptist● St. Medericus● Sts. Nicaeas and Paul● St. Sabina● St. Sebbi● St. Velleicus● Bl. Richard Herst

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 16 (Civil Date: August 29)● Afterfeast of the Dormition.● Translation of the Image Not-made-by-hands of our Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople● Martyr Diomedes the Physician of Tarsus in Cilicia.● St. Cherimon (Chaeremon) of Egypt.● St. Joachim, monk of Osogov.● St. Gerasimos the New Ascetic of Cephalonia (Mt. Athos. .● New-Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora.● New-Martyr Stamatios of Thessaly.● New-Martyrs Priest Vladimir and his brother Boris (1931).● St. Raphael of Banat (Serbia).

● Greek Calendar:● 33 Martyrs of Palestine.● Martyr Alcibiades.● St. Nilus, brother of Emperor Theodore Laskaris, who rebuilt the Monastery of the Mother of God at Eiperus.● Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil and Sarantis of Megaris.● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore ("Feodorovskaya").● Repose of Blessed Matrona Popova, disciple of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (1851).

● Eastern Orthodox:● St. John the Baptist

● The first day of Thoth - which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.

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